Show MERCHANTS BUSY f TAKING STOCK T L Tr Drags i J But ut Is iG i F r Season a aS 5 S I SNOW S N BRINGS CONFIDENCE co E C aEA HEAVY VY DIVIDENDS SHOULD t MONET NONEY EASIER ASIER Stocktaking Stocktaking hag ha h occupied the gr greater gret part of the th h attention of o merchants j I the first of or the Ute year Y and anti they thoy are still sun in the midst of the annual Inventories tories lories There has ia been the expected shrinkage In la trade trade following the holt boll J days but the average compares well with that of a year ago I The appearance of a heavy has added to the general l confidence Merchants in the agricultural districts feel HI the prospects prospect pro for a good water j t supply next season are greatly un Im unproved proved Although there is by no means i ia a sufficiency as yet the time for the heaviest snowfalls fe Is scarcely begun beg un and there is In no great anxiety on that II score M Although h a presidential campaign is impending wl the locally lot 11 Is that I everything ever in a business way will be bt better this thlE year than las 19 i This fe Ia es especially s true of mining in operations of this kind figure flure fi re that the speculative money will VIII continue to turn away from industrials toward le legitimate mining as 86 the th safest sae safe and most remunerative mode of ep Utah stands well wen aa no a R mining state and proportionately more mOTe and more mOte money mone is III flowing in this direction from east eastern eastern ern em investors rs Dividends and ad d Interest There has not been the expected re ro relaxation In Jn the local money market m since Jan 1 I although there th re is i more morein in circulation The demand is firm I but it is expected that the supply will I seem coon be De increased Heavy payments of dividends diV and interest are being II made and this money montY is In slowly coming in for tor loan lean an Investment Dividends and j payments of interest for the month are arc areas arcas areas t as follows I Home Fire Fir Insurance Co 00 The Utah Sugar Co Dec 31 00 Mormon Church bonds interest In t eras t 00 0 State Bank W Q 0 tens Zions Zi ns Savings Saving B 9 W Oil WP Wk WaI P Commercial aI i Savings S f U UBank Bank k 26 Ix 00 Q Lehl Lehi Commercial A Savings Bank December ber J i 4 01 00 Thatcher Bros Banking BaRking Co 30 00 First National Bank Ogden O en d oJ 00 First National Bank Bask Ogden Of den ppe po cial clat 4 per cent 80 to toO Ogden O en Savings Bank 1500 W Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Co w 00 Consolidated c Wagon wag ft Machine ii Co 1 00 Amalgamated Sugar Co CoS 01 00 S L t City R It R b bends and Power Co bonds bends interest 5 W Total OB 00 Stocks and Bonds The market for stocks and bonds bondt has been quiet Quotations Quota ons are aa as f follows Deseret t National rl Bank iI 7 OJ z X C M 24 1 r 1810 Home Fire Insurance ln C CO H The rime Utah Sugar Co o preferred 3 ii Common 3 State Stat Bank of Utah J j 00 DeseNt Savings Sa Bank 00 ZIon Zions s Savings Bank Beak Trust Trus Co ll Ot 00 Provo Com Corn A Savings Bank 00 Lehi Lehl Com Corn 4 Savings Bank Baak OO W 00 Thatcher Bros Co Logan li lii lie e TO O First National Bank Ban Ogden i 12 to Davis Co Bank 1970 iI Barnes Banking Co I 00 Ogden Savings Bank i oo Consolidated Wagon Machine Co preferred e 25 2 w 50 Common 5 W 0 Greeley Sugar Co W 11 W CO Fremont County Cou S Sugar gar Co l I W 10 0 O Amalgamated Sugar Co 1 oO Common Oi Idaho Sugar Co II Lewiston ton Sugar Co 1600 10 Provo Woolen Co H W eo Peoples Coop LeW Lehi l W 10 eo 00 Mormon Church bonds bOnd 1000 J Consolidated Railway Power Co bonds b l 1 0 S I L City R R bonds Joo iO Sumpter Valley Railroad J Utah Co Light Licht Power pOO 00 JO |